Mary Ann Bernard

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    ... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dulness [sic] of our own jokes.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Death is the king of this world: ‘tis his park
    Where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain
    Are music for his banquet
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Man may have his opinion as to the relative importance of feeding his body and nourishing his soul, but he is allowed by Nature to have no opinion whatever as to the need for feeding the body before the soul can think of anything but the body’s hunger.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)